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For 20 years, Silicon Valley has been the hot location for anyone interested working in a high-tech career, and while it remains the most powerful tech center in the country, a recent Forbes story has named Atlanta as one of five up and coming tech meccas.

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) asked the Atlanta firm to design Coda, a 750,000-square-foot mixed-use complex with some unusual features. The development is a key addition to the school’s Tech Square, a mini-neighborhood in Midtown planned in the early 2000s as a hub for education, operations, and real-world learning.

“Georgia Tech had a vision for a high performance computer center with a major impact to Tech Square, and in one master stroke, this project further cements Tech Square’s status as a world-class innovation district.”

The second phase of Technology Square, known as “Coda,” will be a 21-story office tower featuring space for Georgia Tech and the private sector. Tech and developer Portman hope the tower, expected to be finished in early 2019, will burnish Midtown’s status as a technology hub.

The nearly 750,000-square-foot mixed-use project will create new opportunities in interdisciplinary research, commercialization and sustainability. It will also enhance the area’s innovation ecosystem, which fosters collaboration between the Institute, startups and established industry leaders.

“There is nothing else like Coda in the world today on this scale, on this quality of design, that brings top-tier research and commercialization together so effectively,” Midtown Alliance chief Kevin Green said at the groundbreaking event of the 21-story tower, located between Spring Street and West Peachtree Street.

Construction is officially underway on Coda at Tech Square in Midtown. Located along Spring Street on the Georgia Tech campus, the mixed-use project is being developed by Portman Holdings with DPR Construction serving as general contractor to complete the John Portman & Associates designed building.